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Apt Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set…
- Let us begin by clearing up the old confusion between theman who loves learning and the man who loves reading, and point out that there…
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